I have good news for Catastrophe Theory readers! Because next Haunted transitions into Xiyuan’s office, I have to do a crapload of character design that I didn’t do before starting the comic (YOLO), which means the path of least resistance
he what (We’ve used the second-to-last-panel-is-a-beat-panel trope—this is officially a real webcomic.) (NOTE: Have you voted in the Monthly SimLit Short Story Contest yet? Go do it!! Help support our small community! For a genre this niche, every vote counts,
Let’s briefly go into this guy’s name, 刘希愿 (Liú Xīyuàn). 刘 (Liú): Destroy or kill—archaic meaning, nowadays it’s used only as a last name. (To pronounce, try to say ‘Leo’ as one syllable with a rising tone.) 希 (Xī): First